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I was disappointed the horse wasn't real
How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?
Its just poetic fiction in what is a long form poem.
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How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?
Ignoring the historical record and academic consensus, its very unlikely this trick could ever work. Ancient people weren't simpletons and the logistics of it all are pretty silly. Its just poetic fiction in what is a long form poem.
With that said, it always in turn felt like the serpents' presence undermined Odysseus' claim of being clever, since from that perspective the Trojans didn't have much choice but to bring it in, or risk the ire of the gods. It's hardly a ruse if the enemy knows it's a trap but is compelled by supernatural forces to take it anyway.
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How do you know? It was mentioned by Homer, wasn't it?
I don't just online consensus. Need to simulate the universe's particles and rewind time like that show Devs to witness it myself.
I was disappointed the horse wasn't real
> A real city. A real war. A real text — composed four hundred years later, in Greek hexameter, by a poet or poets who had inherited the story without ever seeing the place — whose specifics turned out, in surprising number, to map.
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We don't even know if Homer was real. XD
I’ve seen it fairly convincingly argued that he wasn’t!
But just reasoning 'rationally', I assume the argument is that the Iliad / Oddysey were told in cultures of predominantly oral tradition? So likely, just as with the game of telephone, the story got told and retold, and distorted, many times until someone ("Homer") decided to write it down?
So the argument being that Homer is not the 'creator' of the stories, and might just be someone who wrote it down?
Or perhaps the argument is that no single person wrote it down?